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ronald reagan's second term -- >> a few months ago, i told the american people i did not trade arms for hostages. my heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and evidence tell me it is not. >> reporter: the iran contra affair. bill clinton -- >> i did not have sexual relations with that woman. >> reporter: impeached after the lewinsky mess. and george w. bush, well, there was the valerie plame spygate scandal, not to mentioning the handling of hurricane katrina. that's trouble for roughly 100% of re-elected presidents since 1972. yes, it's enough to give you second thoughts about that second term. so is there anything the obama team can do to prevent this? now, as bill clinton might say. >> it depends upon what the meaning of the word "is" is. >> reporter: the fact is, if there is going to be a second-term scandal, its seeds were probably sewn in the first term. the watergate break-in, nixon's first term. the actual iran contra deal, reagan's first term. bill clinton's liaison with lewinsky, first term. the actual plame leaks, first term. so if the obama tea
ronald reagan's second term -- >> a few months ago, i told the american people i did not trade arms for hostages. my heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and evidence tell me it is not. >> reporter: the iran contra affair. bill clinton -- >> i did not have sexual relations with that woman. >> reporter: impeached after the lewinsky mess. and george w. bush, well, there was the valerie plame spygate scandal, not to mentioning the handling...
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similar conditions to what former president jimmy carter faced when he lost to president ronald reagan in 1980 with one exception. >> both were facing difficult economies and carter was facing much worse and he was much less popular than obama, especially among his own party. >> reporter: one other indicator that screams doom and gloom. >> the best thing the president can hope for is not just a good economy, but good economic headlines. >> voters don't have faith that either candidate can fix the problem according to a cnn/orc poll, but a slight majority believes that former massachusetts governor mitt romney has the right kind of business experience for the task, despite the private equity firm bain capital. >> i wouldn't want him there. he would be so out of touch with the average person. >> romney hits back with the struggling economy, accusing the president of not only failing, but playing the blame game. >> have you heard his campaign slogan? >> forward. forward. forward over a cliff and so he's looking around and he's trying to find someone to blame. >> reporter: now there are se
similar conditions to what former president jimmy carter faced when he lost to president ronald reagan in 1980 with one exception. >> both were facing difficult economies and carter was facing much worse and he was much less popular than obama, especially among his own party. >> reporter: one other indicator that screams doom and gloom. >> the best thing the president can hope for is not just a good economy, but good economic headlines. >> voters don't have faith that...
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. >> when ronald reagan was running against incumbent president, jimmy carter in 1980, he asked these series of questions. let me play the clip because on the other side, i'm going to ask both of you if mitt romney should do the same thing right now. >> i think when you make that decision it might be well if you would ask yourself are you better off than you were four years ago? is it easier for you to go and buy things in t stores than it was four years ago? is there more or less unemployment in the country than there was four years ago? is america as respected throughout the world as it was? do you feel that our security is as safe, that we're as strong as we were four years ago. and if you answer all those questions yes, why then i think your choice is obvious who you vote for. >> is that a series of questions mitt romney should be asking right now? >> no. look, obama people may just put him up there and say they want you to go back to four years ago. they think that was the garden time in america. let me tell you what was happening. gm was going broke. bin laden was running around
. >> when ronald reagan was running against incumbent president, jimmy carter in 1980, he asked these series of questions. let me play the clip because on the other side, i'm going to ask both of you if mitt romney should do the same thing right now. >> i think when you make that decision it might be well if you would ask yourself are you better off than you were four years ago? is it easier for you to go and buy things in t stores than it was four years ago? is there more or less...
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ronald reagan posed it when he was challenging an incumbent democratic candidate. are you better off today than you were four years ago? >> most definitely we're better off. when president obama took office, he inherited an economy that had just lost in the previous six months over under george w. bush 3.5 million jobs. really thanks to the failed policies that really crashed the economy. now we've had 29 straight months of job growth in the private sector. we had a resurgence in the manufacturing sector, creating jobs for the first time since the 1990s. and an economy that's moving forward again. if we go backward in the direction that mitt romney wants to take us, we're really going to potentially put ourselves in the same situation. >> so unemployment in january of 2008 was 7.8%. it's now 8.3%. >> well, president obama inherited the larger set of problems. and he's been focused on making sure we can fight for the middle class and working families. if you work hard and play be the rules that you'll have an opportunity to be successful. seeshlly he's been doing th
ronald reagan posed it when he was challenging an incumbent democratic candidate. are you better off today than you were four years ago? >> most definitely we're better off. when president obama took office, he inherited an economy that had just lost in the previous six months over under george w. bush 3.5 million jobs. really thanks to the failed policies that really crashed the economy. now we've had 29 straight months of job growth in the private sector. we had a resurgence in the...
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. >> it's simply a fact ronald reagan had more maneuverability in his second term. i think president clinton did in his. i want president obama in a second term. butly say this, no one in the middle east or the world should misunderstand we have this election, we have terrible arguments about domestic issues. the truth is mitt romney is strong and so is president obama. it's one of the few things i think that the two parties and two candidates agree on. i'm not for mitt romney, okay, but he is strongly pro-israel, so is thpresident. i was moved to see the ambassador on our air on a day when israelis targeted for terrorism again and murdered in cowardly way. i think it's important people know republicans and democrats are united in defense israel. >> did you read into his maybe subtle endorsement to president obama to have more political ability to squeeze the players, doesn't have to worry about domestic political concerns. >> i thought he gave almost a political -- u.s. political answer. seemed to me he was giving a little bit to both candidates talking about how m
. >> it's simply a fact ronald reagan had more maneuverability in his second term. i think president clinton did in his. i want president obama in a second term. butly say this, no one in the middle east or the world should misunderstand we have this election, we have terrible arguments about domestic issues. the truth is mitt romney is strong and so is president obama. it's one of the few things i think that the two parties and two candidates agree on. i'm not for mitt romney, okay, but...
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and we think of the great communicator, we think of ronald reagan in the '80s insisting he doesn't deal with terrorists and we discovered otherwise. sometimes governments should not make these absolutely moral statements because indeed what do you do about hamas? it controls gaza. it holds gaza in captivity, if you will. it is the rogue government in gaza. do you deal with it? well, you try. and how do you deal with it? you designate egyptians as middlemen. we negotiate with terrorists even though we deny it all the time. >> part of the deal is for the united states to help stop the flow of weapons into gaza. but do you suspect egypt is really going to help the united states do that? >> i think egypt will look after its own interests, joe. because one thing the egyptians are very worried about the sina peninsula. it is a place for smugglers, terrorists, raiders, and it has a heavy -- so they must secure the sina peninsula, make sure they have american aid, and they must in the end try to be a broker between the isrealis and hamas, it's a game that egypt knows and one that egypt capitali
and we think of the great communicator, we think of ronald reagan in the '80s insisting he doesn't deal with terrorists and we discovered otherwise. sometimes governments should not make these absolutely moral statements because indeed what do you do about hamas? it controls gaza. it holds gaza in captivity, if you will. it is the rogue government in gaza. do you deal with it? well, you try. and how do you deal with it? you designate egyptians as middlemen. we negotiate with terrorists even...
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ronald reagan's second term. my heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not. >> the iran contra affair. bill clinton. >> i did not have sexual relations with that woman. impeached after the lewinsky mess. . that's trouble for roughly 100% of reelected presidents since 1972. enough to give you second thoughts about that second term. so, is there anything the obama team can do to prevent this? now, as bill clinton might say -- >> it depends upon what the meaning of the word is. >> the fact is, if there is going to be a second term scandal, it's seeds were probably sewn in the first term. the watergate break in, nixon's first term -- >> if the obama team was going to mess up, history suggests they already did. maybe it's something that has made headlines already, but maybe not, the lewinsky scandal didn't surface in 1998, maybe the obama administration will make it's own history and avoid a second term scandal. if not, disney world will seem very appealing
ronald reagan's second term. my heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not. >> the iran contra affair. bill clinton. >> i did not have sexual relations with that woman. impeached after the lewinsky mess. . that's trouble for roughly 100% of reelected presidents since 1972. enough to give you second thoughts about that second term. so, is there anything the obama team can do to prevent this? now, as bill clinton might say...
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they have a disadvantage going into the first debate as we said in 1984 ronald reagan overprepared and he actually did worse. >> the democratic surrogates talking down the president, they actually make a pretty convincing case. >> he has to defend himself too. >> he does have to defend himself. by the way, once you've been president and you've had people running around you handing you everything you ever needed for the last three and a half years, it's difficult to stand in front of people and have somebody wag their finger at you and say, now you answer this question. >> you could see that with bush in '04 that he seemed a little pe pet lent at times. >> didn't they do that to you as governor? >> it's tricky. even though he becomes a candidate, he has to speak in a certain way different than the leeway that a candidate has. >> okay. we're going to have to take a quick break right now. when we come back we're going to get my esteemed panelists unsolicited advice and maybe some from me. stay with us. does your phone give you all day battery life ? droid does. and does it launch apps by
they have a disadvantage going into the first debate as we said in 1984 ronald reagan overprepared and he actually did worse. >> the democratic surrogates talking down the president, they actually make a pretty convincing case. >> he has to defend himself too. >> he does have to defend himself. by the way, once you've been president and you've had people running around you handing you everything you ever needed for the last three and a half years, it's difficult to stand in...
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when you look at what ronald reagan did back in 1986, working with bill bradley and others, that was a year and a half process. so what i've suggested is, let's essentially put a down payment on taxes, let's let tax rates on the upper income folks go up. >> maybe next year they can work out a down payment. you've had a year and a half to do this. you knew this was coming a year and a half ago. where has been the congressional house democrats and republicans and white house leadership on this? why wait till the last three or four weeks of the year to deal with something you've known, wong come, th that's been coming up? >> many democratic leaders had to go home and defend our distributes. i represent a district that was not happy that their representative voted for $1.5 trillion in spending cuts only. democrats have been at the compromise table for all of this year and a half, as president obama has. the only way we're going to get the significant deficit reduction is a balanced approach to spending cuts, as well as increase in the rates, a down payment as president obama talked about
when you look at what ronald reagan did back in 1986, working with bill bradley and others, that was a year and a half process. so what i've suggested is, let's essentially put a down payment on taxes, let's let tax rates on the upper income folks go up. >> maybe next year they can work out a down payment. you've had a year and a half to do this. you knew this was coming a year and a half ago. where has been the congressional house democrats and republicans and white house leadership on...
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reagan building. so i'm leaving. you'll wrap things up for us. >> i'll hold down the fort, but only while you're gone. >> you'll do an excellent job. we'll have much more of what's going on, including my interview with senator dianne feinstein. she's got a lot to say on this whole scandal. and it sounds to her like it's something out of the national enquirer. something very interesn common. they have teachers... ...with a deeper knowledge of their subjects. as a result, their students achieve at a higher level. let's develop more stars in education. let's invest in our teachers... ...so they can inspire our students. let's solve this. online outfit piccolo headphones buy now broadway show megapixels place to sleep little roadster war and peace deep sea diving ninja app hipster glasses 5% cash back sign up to get 5% everywhere online through december. only from discover. >>> the affair that brought down cia director david petraeus caught most officials in the nation's capital by surprise. and many of u
reagan building. so i'm leaving. you'll wrap things up for us. >> i'll hold down the fort, but only while you're gone. >> you'll do an excellent job. we'll have much more of what's going on, including my interview with senator dianne feinstein. she's got a lot to say on this whole scandal. and it sounds to her like it's something out of the national enquirer. something very interesn common. they have teachers... ...with a deeper knowledge of their subjects. as a result, their...
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and ronald reagan won that election in a landslide. more recently osama bin laden released a video four days before the 2004 election, remember? that reminder of the 9/11 attacks probably helped george w. bush win a second term. 2008 the financial meltdown technically that started in september with the collapse of lehman brothers, but it was a moment that boosted barack obama and highlighted john mccain's weakness when it came to the economy. so what about this year 2012? that old video of an angry speech with racial overtones by then candidate obama which resurfaced last night could sway some voters. or maybe the surpriseis still lurking out there somewhere. tonight's debate has the potential to provide one. there's always a chance for significant economic news, jobs report, the potential for the u.s. to go off that well-talked about fiscal cliff. and it's not hard to imagine some unexpected event in the middle east, take your pick, iran, israel, syria, libya. here's the question, what will be the october surprise in this year's presi
and ronald reagan won that election in a landslide. more recently osama bin laden released a video four days before the 2004 election, remember? that reminder of the 9/11 attacks probably helped george w. bush win a second term. 2008 the financial meltdown technically that started in september with the collapse of lehman brothers, but it was a moment that boosted barack obama and highlighted john mccain's weakness when it came to the economy. so what about this year 2012? that old video of an...
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our choice isn't mitt romney or ronald reagan? would you consider an endorsement? >> i thought i was -- the only distinction i think people draw is at some point in the next couple of weeks mitt romney will be together and there will be some kind of endorsement. i tried to send any signal i could that if you were a conservative and you did not realize like barack obama and you had one choice that was mitt romney and we want to find a way to meet barack obama. >> you endorsed him even though there will be a more formal endorsement. have you been speaking with him and do you have a date yet? >> we don't have a specific date when we'll do that, but i talked with the governor and met with his campai manager and we're coordinating with his policy team and they've been very generous in pointing out on the issue of american energy independence i was way ahead of them and i developed a much more comprehensive plan and they were eager to work with us on those platforms. >> will we see mitt romney and newt gingrich together on the campaign trail? >> absolutely. >> will you c
our choice isn't mitt romney or ronald reagan? would you consider an endorsement? >> i thought i was -- the only distinction i think people draw is at some point in the next couple of weeks mitt romney will be together and there will be some kind of endorsement. i tried to send any signal i could that if you were a conservative and you did not realize like barack obama and you had one choice that was mitt romney and we want to find a way to meet barack obama. >> you endorsed him...